EXCLUSIVE: Jim Norton Will Crack You Up In The Latest Episode Of ‘Teacher’s Lounge’

Anyone who’s ever attended school—which, we sincerely hope, encompasses everyone reading this site—can relate to the characters that appear in Teacher’s Lounge, a new Thundershorts web series created by and starring Ted Alexandro and Hollis James. In each episode, these two are joined by both the disembodied voice of Alec Baldwin AND a very special guest. This week’s episode, exclusively available on Decider.com for the next 24 hours, stars comedian Jim Norton as a figure of the educational system that people love to hate: The school security guard.

This is the 10th episode of Teacher’s Lounge, previous episodes of which have guest starred the likes of Jim Gaffigan, Todd Barry, and Michael Che. Norton, a popular comedian who is perhaps best recognized for his recurring role on Louie, is well-cast and quite funny in his role. He certainly projects the kind of loneliness and neediness that we tend to associate with rent-a-cop types, and he fits the archetype of a power-tripping underachiever quite well. Besides, you can watch the whole thing in just over six minutes; whatever you’re putting the finishing touches on at the moment can certainly wait a few minutes more, can’t it?

For more episodes of Teacher’s Lounge, be sure to subscribe to the Thundershorts YouTube Channel today. And tune-in to The Late Late Show on CBS tonight to see Ted Alexandro trade witty banter with Craig Ferguson.